In the afternoon, Ma San sent a small servant to send a post to Du Qiyue, and sent a message to Du Qiyue, saying that Boss He agreed to let Du Qiyue perform at the birthday banquet.

Du Qiyue took the door sticker and looked at it, and asked the little guy: "Does the horse dart master have anything else to say to you to sue me?" ”

"He also said that if Lang Jun messed up the birthday banquet, he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around, so please ask Lang Jun to practice your skills more." The little guy said.

Du Qiyue nodded and said that he knew, and the little guy went back. Du Qiyue touched her chin, thinking that if she messed up, she wouldn't be able to eat and walk around, so if she did it well, I don't know if there would be a reward?

The two of them were standing at the door of the back kitchen to talk, and they didn't deliberately avoid people, Chef Wei went out to the thatched house just when he heard the last words of the little guy, so he couldn't help but snort coldly and said: "Hmph, what kind of craftsmanship is so amazing, isn't it just kneading the dough, and performing arts, and I'm not afraid of people's jokes!" ”

"Master Wei's words are not right, the same dough kneaded by different people is good and bad, and the taste is also different, I knead it well, why does it make people see jokes?" Du Qiyue said with a smile

Chef Wei snorted and scolded: "I want to see how you can knead it, you haven't been born when Lao Tzu was a chef, what kind of smugness!" ”

"Then please take a look!" Du Qiyue said, bypassing Chef Wei and entering the kitchen.

Seeing Du Qiyue's indifferent appearance, Chef Wei became even more angry, and pointed at Du Qiyue's back, but was pulled by Lei Cheng: "Okay, okay, Lao Wei, you gave this to Xiaoyue at the beginning, why is it you who can't get used to it now, don't be nonsense, be careful that this matter will reach the ears of the owner again, and then call a little guy to go to your house to scold him, then there will be no face!" ”

Chef Wei paused, didn't make any more trouble, shook off Lei Cheng's arm and walked towards the thatched house.

Soon it was the day of the birthday banquet, and Du Qiyue and Da Mao arrived at the He family dart bureau early. The birthday banquet has not yet begun, but the guests have come in an endless stream, Du Qiyue in order to prepare the soup of today's longevity noodles, he has been to the He family dart bureau two days ago, and now he took Da Mao to bypass the crowd in front of the main gate, and entered the house from the small door in the back alley.

The He family is also a five-entry house, but it is smaller than Wu Mingyao's, because the He family has a simple population, so there is only a big kitchen in the outer courtyard, and it is quite a long way to walk through the side door. Da Mao came to such a big mansion for the first time, and walked behind Du Qiyue in a restrained manner, not even daring to raise his head more.

The kitchen was already busy, including Du Qiyue, the He family invited a total of ten chefs to come over this time, and most of them had already started to cook at this time. Du Qiyue hurriedly put on an apron and washed his hands, walked to the stove he was in charge of, took out a large pot of soup that he had cooked yesterday from the cabinet, tasted it and made sure that the taste was correct, and then let Da Mao light the fire and cook it again.

"Xiaoyue, what am I going to do now?" Da Mao rubbed his hands and asked.

Du Qiyue took out everything he brought and said, "Knead the noodles, make the three dim sum of Baishou peach, Fuzi square cake and eight-treasure rice first." ”

"Hey." Da Mao answered, picked up the scoop and scooped a large basin of flour out of the dough jar on the side, mixed it with water and kneaded it.

Du Qiyue took out a whole pot of bean paste filling and a whole pot of jujube paste filling that he had ground yesterday and put them in two pots to heat and fry them, while checking the ingredients he needed, he found that everything else was ready, and he was short of milk and had not yet brought it, so he beckoned to a small man in the kitchen and asked: "Sixi, what about the milk I want, didn't your chief steward say yesterday that he would bring the freshest milk early in the morning, why hasn't it been delivered yet?" ”

The little guy called Sixi is only twelve or thirteen years old, and he only cares about cleaning and burning the fire in the kitchen on weekdays, and he doesn't know anything else, Du Qiyue asked him and he touched his head blankly and said: "Chef Du, this little guy doesn't know, the little guy in the outer courtyard has sent all the ingredients that should be sent early in the morning." ”

Du Qiyue saw that this kid didn't know anything, so he said: "You guys are in charge, you go and tell him that the milk I want hasn't been delivered yet, and the most important snack today Baishou peach will use milk, and I can't make it without milk." ”

Sixi hurriedly ran out after hearing this, and ran back after a while, panting and said to Du Qiyue: "Chef Du, our steward said that the car that went to Zhuangzi to transport milk broke down and overturned halfway, and the milk on the car was spilled, and our steward has sent someone to buy it in other Zhuangzi." Our steward said let Chef Du make dim sum without milk first. ”

Hearing this, Du Qiyue's brows furrowed, and said: "There are three things I want to do today, and I have to use milk for three snacks, and if I don't have it, you can ask you to do your best to send someone to urge, at least you have to tell me about when this milk can be transported." If you lack a material, you can't make eight kinds of good snacks for a while. ”

Sixi ran out again, and then came back soon after, still with a message and only asked Du Qiyue to make snacks without milk first, as for when the milk would be delivered, he still didn't say.

Du Qiyue didn't expect that the first two days would be smooth, but such a thing happened when he caught up with the right day, but since it was on the stall, he had no choice but to make the blessing word square cake and eight-treasure rice first, while preparing for the worst in his heart, and listed a few small snacks that didn't need the meaning of milk and were better.

But things are not too bad, when Du Qiyue steamed the Fu Zi square cake and eight treasure rice, and began to make chrysanthemum bergamot cake, several large buckets of milk were finally transported. At this time, the birthday banquet also officially began, the sound of drums and the chanting of the opera came faintly from the garden, and a small maid in the outer courtyard ran over and said to Du Qiyue: "The master let you do all the dim sum or two, now watch the play more delicious." ”

"Hey, it's good to wait for a stick of incense." Du Qiyue said, turning his head and directing Da Mao to pour several buckets of fishy milk into a large pot, put almonds and sugar and start boiling.

Boiling milk over a high fire is easy to make the milk lack nutrients, usually Du Qiyue would never do this, but at this time, it was too late to take care of these, he asked Da Mao to add a few large firewoods, and a large pot of milk boiled in less than ten minutes.

Du Qiyue scooped some milk out and let Da Mao knead the dough to make Baishou peaches, and then took some out and put it in cold water to cool, and then added the rice wine that filtered the rice grains at a ratio of two to one, stirred evenly and poured into a shallow small stew cup, and then covered the lid and put it in the steamer to steam.

At this time, the Fuzi square cake and eight treasure rice were just steamed, and Du Qiyue hurriedly asked someone to take down the steamer and pour the square cake and eight treasure rice in the mold.

The square cake is placed in a square mold, a mold is divided into sixteen small square grids, each grid is engraved with a big Fu character and four auspicious cloud patterns, so that each snow-white square cake steamed out of the head is clearly printed with the word Fu. Du Qiyue asked people to divide a small plate of every three pieces into a small bean green plate, and then put a little green mint leaf and a few small cherries in the middle of the three square cakes, and let people serve them out.

The Eight Treasure Rice is made by filling eight kinds of dried fruits with glutinous rice dyed red with water juice, and it is also placed in a square mold divided into 16 equal parts, but the small grids are not made into squares, but in the shape of carp swimming in the same way. Du Qiyue had two bean paste balls stuffed into the fish's eyes one by one, and then placed them in a small water-blue dish, which looked like real bright red carp.

After getting these two kinds of snacks, the cheese is steamed. After the steamer was removed, Du Qiyue opened the lid of the stew pot and looked at the solidification process, then set it aside to cool, and after an hour, the crisp cheese with some moisture would completely solidify and turn into a white and creamy, soft and smooth taste.

Mrs. He is quite satisfied with today's birthday banquet, this is her 60th birthday, there are a lot of guests, and it is lively everywhere, the troupe that her son invited her looks good and sings well, the most important thing is that the dim sum master who invited this time makes good dim sum, not to mention the taste, the appearance of the dim sum is gratifying, the white cake printed with the word Dafu, the glutinous rice dim sum of the red carp, the milk bag of the peach shape, the shortbread like the Buddha's hand, the name is also good, it is really good.

"Old lady, this is a golden cake, you can taste it." The little girl was holding a palm-sized white porcelain plate with a few golden honeycomb square cakes on it, and it looked like a few pieces of gold from a distance.

Mrs. He picked up a piece with chopsticks, took a small bite, and felt that it was soft and not sticky to her teeth, but the taste was different from all the snacks she had eaten before, which was very good.

Boss He sat at the table next to Mrs. He, and had already eaten the golden cake on his plate in three or two bites, and seeing that his mother hadn't touched it much, he leaned over and asked, "Mother, how are you eating?" Isn't it delicious? ”

"It's delicious, where did you invite this pastry chef, it's really good." Old Madam He swallowed what was in her mouth and said with a smile.

"Drunken Fulou invited, I heard Ma San say that this master is still a scholar, it's really rare." Boss He said, snorting out of his nose, revealing a little disdain for readers.

Mrs. He slapped her son on the arm lightly and heavily, and said: "It is your blessing that people who read books make these pastries for you to eat, your mother and I have been looking forward to you being able to study and become a great career since I was pregnant with you, but I was born a big old man, it is more difficult to let you study than to let you ascend to the sky, and you dare to look down on readers, you are also embarrassed!" ”

Boss He smiled embarrassedly when he was scolded, and muttered: "Mother, there are so many guests here today, don't teach me a lesson in front of everyone, leave me some dignity!" ”

Old Madam He laughed out loud when Boss He pretended to be dissatisfied, and when she saw that a new snack was served, she said: "You coax me like this, old lady, what kind of decency is there, eat your things obediently, I can't stop your mouth if I eat." ”

"I'll listen to my mother, so I'll eat!" Boss He said, casually took a snack from the newly brought dish and threw it into his mouth, "Mother, you eat this little rabbit tastes good, it is filled with cherries." ”

"Oh, why is this little rabbit so cute, my old woman is reluctant to put down chopsticks." Mrs. He looked at the three little white rabbits placed side by side on the plate, held the chopsticks and hesitated for a while and was not willing to eat, she liked it very much, so she asked the little girl who served the dim sum and said, "What is the name of this dim sum, it won't be called the white rabbit!" ”

"Back to the old lady, this snack is called Dafu, old lady, you eat quickly, you want to enjoy great blessings if you eat it." The little girl said with a clever smile.

"That's a good name, then I have to eat it." Mrs. He laughed, and finally took a little rabbit with chopsticks and took a bite, and after biting the milky dough, the stuffed cherry filling was revealed, which was very appetizing.

The last dessert is steamed cheese with sugar, a small white stew pot filled with white cheese, with a strong milky flavor, a small spoonful of golden honey poured on top of the cheese, sprinkled with some crushed nuts and fresh diced fruits, and a small flower carved with a watermelon, which is pleasing to the eye.

"Old lady, this is steamed cheese with sugar, which is made from milk, but it is a rare thing, please try it." The little girl put the stew pot in front of Mrs. He, swallowed her saliva quietly and said.

Everything with milk and cheese is precious in the Dafeng Dynasty, and ordinary cooks don't know how to do it, Mrs. He has lived for so many years and has not eaten a few times of crisp cheese, so she can't wait to scoop a spoonful and eat it. The softened cheese melts in the mouth, the taste is not very sweet, but there is no fishy smell of a little milk, and the mouth is full of only the instant overflowing milk flavor and the aroma of rice wine, and occasionally eating nuts and diced fruits makes people feel very surprised, and they can't wait to eat the next bite to see if they will eat that kind of nuts or that kind of fruit.

Mrs. He took a few bites before she stopped, and said to the little girl beside her: "These snacks are very good, Cui'er, take a few silver ingots with patterns that I just cast before before to reward this dim sum master." ”